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What is the least amount of dollars you ever spent on a firearm?

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#1 ·
Besides free hand-me-downs or inheritance pieces, what's the least amount you ever spent on a gun?

Here's my cool story bros.

In CA you have to pay a $25 background/DROS fee when buying a gun. But you can buy multiple guns on one DROS free. So many time I justified putting another gun on the same DROS since I only had to pay the $25 once.

I have a habit of whenever I'm buying a rifle I ask the salesman, "Hey, what's the cheapest rifle in the store? Throw it on the same DROS and I'll take it home also." It's why I have 4 Mosin Nagants :D

Well about 10 years ago I was picking something up and asked what's the cheapest rifle in the store and the salesman picked up this old Steyr M95 and said, "This one is $59."

So that's my cool story. Cheapest I ever paid was $59 which around 2008 was a pretty good price for a firearm in CA. Even Mosin Nagants were around $129 at that time.

Here is what one looks like in case you've never heard or seen of one. It kicks like a mule. And very expensive to shoot. I bought a box of 10 rounds (New reloads) and put 3 through it to make sure it shot/worked well. Which it did.


 
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In 1958 my ship was in Naples, Italy harbor. By special arrangement between the Navy and the Beretta Arms Corp., my crew and I were able to host a visit by a sales rep from the Beretta Arms company for the purpose of selling firearms to the crew.

I didn't have much cash on the spur of the moment, so I bought a .25 caliber Beretta "Panther" pistol for my wife. I paid $12 brand new from the factory delivered to my ship. If I had more cash, I could have bought the same pistol in Nickle plating and engraved, for $16.

One crew member brought back a Vespa Motor Scooter, we carried it in the forward anchor chain locker till we got home.

When we got into port in Charleston, SC, the local Sheriff came on board by invitation of the Captain. Our Captain didn't want his crew sitting in jail for illegally carrying firearms in the city.

He showed us how to legally carry the firearms off the ship and in his city while heading "out of town". He wanted the magazine inserted and the slide locked back. His rationale was questionable. He was a stereotype for the Sheriff in the "Smokey and the Bandit" movie. Literally.
 
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In 1958 my ship was in Naples, Italy harbor. By special arrangement between the Navy and the Beretta Arms Corp., my crew and I were able to host a visit by a sales rep from the Beretta Arms company for the purpose of selling firearms to the crew.

I didn't have much cash on the spur of the moment, so I bought a .25 caliber Beretta "Panther" pistol for my wife. I paid $12 brand new from the factory delivered to my ship. If I had more cash, I could have bought the same pistol in Nickle plating and engraved, for $16.

One crew member brought back a Vespa Motor Scooter, we carried it in the forward anchor chain locker till we got home.

When we got into port in Charleston, SC, the local Sheriff came on board by invitation of the Captain. Our Captain didn't want his crew sitting in jail for illegally carrying firearms in the city.

He showed us how to legally carry the firearms off the ship and in his city while heading "out of town". He wanted the magazine inserted and the slide locked back. His rationale was questionable. He was a stereotype for the Sheriff in the "Smokey and the Bandit" movie. Literally.
Somewhat off topic maybe.

My Uncle got the same deal in 66 or 68, when he did a Med tour, but he went for a SXS double 20...I got no idea the grade, but it is a really nice one. IIRC, he said he paid $125.00 for it which was a lot of money back then. I remember he said he asked for and got 3" chambers which apparently weren't common then.

His buddy got a near matching SXS 12. Then his buddy lost a bunch of money gambling and sold the 12 to my Uncle for about half what he paid for it before they got back to the states. He still has those guns.

You may now return to your regularly scheduled thread.
 
#7 ·
Way back in the days of the DCM I bought 1903-A3's for about $10.50 and 1911's for about $15.00.
Also M1 carbines for about $15.00 and M1 rifles for about $75.00 . You could also buy M1 National Match rifles for about $125.00.
It has so long ago that I don't remember the exact prices I paid for them but the above are close.
They were shipped via Railway Express and you had to go down and pick them at the station .
The DCM was the fore runner of the now CMP.
 
#8 ·
In the early 1960's and before, (when ken grant is talking about above) almost anyone could buy guns form magazine ads and military guns from our government. Delivered to your door by the Postman.

I bought a couple (new) Springfield (Remington) 03A3 and 03A4 (sniper model) 30.06.

03A3


03A4



Bought a M1 Carbine for $20.


And bought a (new) GI 1911A1 for $17.
All have seen some changes over the years.



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#11 ·
$100 for my first gun, a Westernfield 500A chopped at both ends.
 
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#18 ·
Bought a charter arms .38 undercover for $25 from a newspaper ad back in the late 70s. A guy was retiring and had kept it in his car for protection. He'd had to travel 50 miles one way to a defense plant out in the boonies. Had never even fired it. Still new in a sheepskin lined case plus a full box of milspec ammo he'd picked up at work from one of the security guards. I carried snake loads in it for years when trout fishing up in the local mts. Sits in the safe now until I need it again.
 
#20 ·
1975 a guy my dad brought from Kalifornia to Southern Indiana to work at the Naval Warfare Support Center retired and was going back to Kalifornia. He offered me $5 to help load the U-Haul for the move.

When we were done he came out with a laundry detergent box stuffed with a dish towel and said I could have either the $5 or the box, what the heck I took the box...
Brown Gun Firearm White Trigger

1942 S&W Military & Police Victory model he was issued in WWII when he was a photographer on PBYs in the navy. Still had 3/4 of the box of ammo he was issued with the gun, said he had only fired 12 shots when he first got it.
 
#21 ·
In 1976 I bought a WWII military surplus mauser 98 for $45. I still have it and it still shoots 1.5" groups at 100 yards. (which is why I still have it)
 
#22 ·
$230 for a Ruger 10/22.
 
#24 ·
I bought a Anschutz .22 rifle for $80. In 1972. I don't know how much that is now, but it was a great deal even then. That was the gun that taught me to appreciate German firearms.
 
#26 ·
-$5. My neighbor was liquidating his 3 firearms. I bought 2 and he had a Jennings 32 left. I told him that I didn't want the Jennings. He offered to give it to me for free. I said that the pistol purchase permit (required at the time in NC) cost me $5. So he paid me $5 to take the Jennings.
 
#27 ·
$150 870
 
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